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The Cabrera Lab Blog
As part of our research mission, we strive to make the science of systems thinking accessible to everyone. The Cabrera Lab Blog and the Cabrera Lab Podcast are our primary platforms for sharing these ideas. The views expressed in these outlets are solely our own and do not necessarily represent those of our partners or of Cornell University.
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Systems Thinking Is A Complex Adaptive System (CAS)Picture of Derek & Laura Cabrera
Our post today is about complex adaptive systems (CAS), in memory of English mathematician and systems thinker John Conway who died on...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Apr 14, 202010 min read
Soft Systems Methodology
This article is a part of our ongoing "System Models" series that looks at various systems models through the universal lens of DSRP in...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Apr 13, 20202 min read
Synapses, Hinges, Embassies, and Supply Chains: The Power of RDS Structural Predictions
I want to introduce you to some ideas that may seem philosophical and abstract, perhaps academic. I hope that, in the end, these ideas...
Derek Cabrera
Apr 12, 20205 min read
Structural Predictions: Part Two
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 6 USING IDEA ANALYTICS TO PREDICT NEW IDEAS The predictive capabilities of...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Apr 12, 20206 min read
A Systems Thinking Guide to Student Networking During Quarantine
One of the things I learned in my Systems Thinking courses at Cornell University is that systems thinking can be used not only to solve ...
Alexandria J. Maloney
Apr 11, 20203 min read
Structural Predictions: Part One
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 6 PREDICTIVE POWER OF SIMPLE RULES The ultimate goal of all science is to...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Apr 10, 20209 min read
Jig: Perspective Ecology
This blog is part of a set listed under the tag "cognitive jigs." Be sure to check out the tag to read them as a group and learnhow...
Elena Cabrera
Apr 9, 20203 min read
Not Just Posters, Culture Transforming Reifications
We're committed to increasing public understanding of science about systems thinking. We strive to make the basic science of systems...
Staff
Apr 7, 20205 min read
The Underlying DSRP Structure of System Dynamics
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 8 System dynamics is a method that is popular, and for some types of...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Apr 7, 20204 min read
Jig: R-Channel
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 5 This blog is part of a set of blogs under the tag "cognitive jigs." Be...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Apr 6, 20202 min read
Slider: De-dupe-ing
The term cognitive slider was coined by Derek Cabrera to communicate “a relatively small, nourishing or ‘meaty’ mental model” for use in...
Derek Cabrera
Apr 5, 20202 min read
JIG: BARBELL
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 5 This blog is part of a set of blogs under the tag "cognitive jigs."Be sure...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Apr 4, 20203 min read
Just one thing.
I've taught SystemsThinking/DSRP [1] for a long time... I've taught it to scientists, doctoral students, and graduate students. I've...
Derek Cabrera
Apr 4, 20202 min read
JIG: CATEGORIES
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 5 This blog is part of a set of blogs under the"cognitive jigs."Be sure to...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Apr 3, 20204 min read
JIG: P-CIRCLE
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 5 This blog is part of a set of blogs under the"cognitive jigs."Be sure to...
Derek Cabrera
Apr 2, 20205 min read
JIG: ANALOGIES, METAPHORS AND SIMILES
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 5 This blog is part of a set of blogs under the tag "cognitive jigs." Be...
Derek & Laura Cabrera
Mar 31, 20203 min read
JIG: PART PARTIES
Parties are a place where people get together and make connections. In other words, it’s a situation where people relate to each other....
Elena Cabrera
Mar 26, 20202 min read
UNIVERSAL JIGS
What Are Jigs? Jigs are re-useable structures of knowledge and thinking that increase cognitive efficiency. Think of a jig as a common...
Derek Cabrera
Mar 25, 20203 min read
DISTINCTIONS: WHEN DO THEY HAPPEN?
What would it mean if we could not make distinctions? What would the world look like to us? If you attempt to imagine a world like that,...
Staff
Mar 22, 20203 min read
JIGS AND SLIDERS: THE COGNITIVE TEMPLATES OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Jigs and sliders are often simple, but incredibly useful. Our graduate students sometimes have difficulty differentiating them. Here's a...
Derek Cabrera
Mar 22, 20203 min read
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